Want To Help Someone? Shut Up and Listen!

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Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

~ERNST F. SCHUMACHER, author ofSmall Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered

When most well-intentioned aid workers hear of a problem they think they can fix, they go to work. This, Ernesto Sirolli suggests, is naïve. In this funny and impassioned talk, he proposes that the first step is to listen to the people you’re...